The trouble with pancakes is that you're ready to eat them long before you've finished cooking the whole batch. This leads to the chef eating pancakes off the pile while flipping the remaining batter on the griddle. That was before the world had the ChefStack automatic pancake machine -- which cranks out 200 circular pancakes every hour.
About the size of a microwave oven, the automatic pancake machine (APM) has a number of settings, allowing it to produce everything from your standard stackers to "mini pancake shooters" filled with eggs and meat. McGriddle, meet your little brother. Batter is prepacked in bags and
automatically released onto heated Teflon rollers, based on the settings selected.
The standard pancakes are 4 inches in diameter and look like beautiful sunflowers in the promotional pictures. You want delicious pancakes right now, don't you? The APM is the first product being offered by ChefStack -- a food products company based in Seattle, Washington.
Although the machine is designed for convenience stores, hospitals and coffee shops, it's about time the home kitchen had a high-end pancake option to go along with six-burner stoves and commercial coffee makers. Forget registering for a waffle maker -- it's time to drop $3,500 on the ChefStack. For those who just want to take a test drive, leasing and rental options are apparently available.
Now, just try to imagine a food cart in the Power & Light District offering up pancakes after all the bars have closed. Because the only other option is
Denny's, and nobody wins when they're face-deep in a Grand Slam.
[Image via ChefStack]
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